News:
26.03.24
Our latest study, now out in @JMedVirol, delves into enzalutamide's potential as an antiviral against human coronaviruses, revealing insights into viral-Androgen Receptor signalling
Ogunjinmi OD, Abdullahi T, Somji R-A, Bevan CL, Barclay WS, Temperton N, Brooke GN, Giotis ES. The antiviral potential of the antiandrogen enzalutamide and the viral-androgen signalling interplay in seasonal coronaviruses. J Med Virol. 2024; 96:e29540. doi:10.1002/jmv.29540
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12.02.24
Stathis Giotis has contributed to an article by Maeve Cullinan at the Telegraph about a fatal case of Alaskapox virus https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/elderly-man-becomes-first-recorded-death-from-alaskapox/
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11.01.24
Stathis Giotis has been elected as Treasurer for Europe by the World Society of Virology
https://ws-virology.org/third-wsv-election/
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17.12.23
Our Lab Xmas outing rocked! Post-UCL virtual virology event hangout with
Nigel Temperton as guest star was a blast. Cheers to an awesome crew!
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29.11.23
New preprint from our lab; Investigating enzalutamide, a prostate cancer treatment, as a potential antiviral against common cold coronaviruses, we provide further evidence of an interplay between viruses and androgen signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.25.568685v1
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02.11.23
A new collaborative study in which GiotisLab was part of was accepted at Frontiers in Public Health https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1283113/abstract
23.10.23
Our lab was awarded $1,000 New Lab Award by Bon Opus Bio https://www.bonopusbio.com/grant-program
01.10.23
Tukur Abdullahi won the 2nd prize for the best Graduate Forum presentation of the University of Essex 2023. Well done Tukur!!
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12.07.23
Stathis Giotis presented the latest work of the lab on androgens and viral susceptibility at the meeting on Viral Pseudotypes at Nottingham.
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30.06.23
Professor Nelson Fernandez presented the results of our joint PhD student Tukur Abdullahi at the Immunopharmacology Convention 2023 in Varadero, Cuba.
21.06.23
Stathis Giotis was invited to give a talk at the Biosciences Conference at the University of East London
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18.06.23
Stathis Giotis presented our recent work on bat viruses at the WSV2023 in Riga, Latvia
15.06.2023
A new preprint was released on biorxiv: Serological evidence of high pathogenicity virus infection in Eidolon helvum fruit bats in Nigeria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.14.544916v1
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20.04.2023
Riaz Somji and Tukur Abdullahi presented their work on mTOR and host innate immune responses to seasonal coronaviruses at the Microbiology Society annual conference in Birmingham
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20.01.2023
Lab outing to the 3 wise monkeys in Colchester
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08.12.22
A review paper was published in Viruses; Giotis, E.S.; Cil, E.; Brooke, G.N. Use of Antiandrogens as Therapeutic Agents in COVID-19 Patients. Viruses2022, 14, 2728. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14122728
02.12.22
Great meeting on pseudotyping by VPU at NIBSC
01.12.22
Stathis Giotis is accepted as a member of the UKRI/BBSRC panel of experts
04.11.22
A preprint review on anti androgens as COVID-19 was released in collaboration with Greg Brooke's group at Essex
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202211.0075/v1
15.09.22
Celebrating the retirement of Professor Mike Skinner at Imperial College. Happy retirement Mike!
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19.07.22
Celebrating our last lab meeting for the Summer and the heatwave in Essex
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25.05.2022
Stathis Giotis contributed to an article by Helen Collis at politico.eu about monkeypox and vaccines
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02.05.2022
Riaz Somji and Tiffany Teoh joined our lab to do a PhD (3-years) and Masters by Dissertation (MSD; 1 year) respectively.
Wellcome!
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04-07.04.2022
Ogunjinmi (Dami) Oluwadamilola and Stathis Giotis presented (poster and oral presentations) at the annual conference of the UK Microbiology Society, which was held in Belfast (4-7 April 2022).
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15.03.2022
Tukur Abdullahi from Nigeria is the newest member of our lab. His PhD will be focused on the comparative host innate responses to seasonal coronaviruses.
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21.02.2022
Our paper 'Naïve Human Macrophages Are Refractory to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Exhibit a Modest Inflammatory Response Early in Infection' is now published in Viruses
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/2/441
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05.02.2022
A new preprint was released on bioRxiv: Primary human macrophages exhibit a modest inflammatory response early in SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.02.478897v1
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21.01.2022
Stathis Giotis, David Matthews and Jacqueline Smith are editors of the research topic 'Host innate immune responses to infections by avian- and bat-borne viruses volume II' in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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09.12.2021
Stathis Giotis spoke on BBC London about the Omicron variant and the recently introduced measures to slow its spread in the UK
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24.11.2021
Stathis Giotis was interviewed by East Anglian daily times on COVID-19 and his opinion was hosted in the main article of 24.11.2021
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/health/suffolk-enhanced-response-area-exit-likely-8511602
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20.10.2021
Stathis Giotis was interviewed by the BBC Essex radio morning show about COVID-19 vaccines and the need to reintroduce some restriction measures in light of the rising cases of COVID-19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09x4zlr
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